Students

PLEASE NOTE! You should receive a confirmation email immediately after you submit the form. If you don’t receive a confirmation email, you may have missed a required field. Please check to make sure all fields are complete!

Students must use the studios responsibly, and ensure that any guests (artists, friends, etc) do likewise

Only fresh or single pass reels of +9 tape may be used on the Otari Machines in Neve or SSL Studios

No food or drinks are allowed at any time in the control rooms, isolation booths, editing suites, or production spaces. Please keep your food and drink in the cafe or other public areas of the school.

DON’T LEAVE A MESS!!! Rooms should be set back to “normal” (console & outboard gear must be zeroed out, patchbay pulled, mic stands and gobos stacked neatly in the studio, chairs replaced, lights out, doors locked, etc.) for the next session. All equipment must be undamaged and intact upon leaving.

Do not bleed into the next person’s session by waiting until the very end of your session to clean up

Other than for Sound Reinforcement purposes, do not block the studio windows under any circumstances

Students must not benefit financially from their time in an Expression studio…
THIS MEANS YOU CANNOT CHARGE A BAND TO RECORD AT EXPRESSION!!! This also means you cannot charge for ANY professional work done using Ex’pression facilities or equipment

Any failure to adhere to Section 3 above will result in disciplinary action as follows: The first infraction will receive a warning (unless it is determined that any equipment is missing, this will be investigated and dealt with appropriately, and may result in expulsion). The second infraction will result in the Student having his/her studio privileges revoked for no less than one month, and the third will result in a permanent loss of studio privileges

Anyone caught in any studio without permission will be put on immediate conduct probation, a second infraction will result in a permanent loss of studio privileges

Anyone discovered altering the configuration of a studio IN ANY WAY will automatically lose all studio privileges

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Before making a booking request, check the Online Room Schedule. The page will open up with a calendar navigation tool at the top, and today’s schedule shown as a graph with the Room names across the top and the time slots down the left side. Select a specific “Area” such as “Studios” to see all the rooms in that area. Match up the time of day with the room you want to see if it is available. You can also check your class schedule from this site.
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Students are allowed a maximum of 30 HOURS OF PERSONAL TIME PER MONTH in any combination of studios, suites or production spaces, and only 8 hours total may be requested at one time. Students may combine their allotted time if they work together

Students who fail to appear for their scheduled studio time will lose those hours, as well as an equal number of hours from the next month’s allotment

Complete the Studio Booking form at least 5 full business days in advance (a business day is Monday-Friday 8a-5p, excluding Holidays). Requests may not be made more than 45 days in advance. Please make sure all fields of the form are complete before submitting.

Please select your current Course Instructor. If you do not see your instructor listed, you may choose your Program Chair. The instructor will then receive the request, and e-mail the Studio Manager their approval if so granted. You will no longer need to track down your instructors for their signatures – their e-mail approval will serve as the signature. The new Rules of Booking form will only require your signature.

You will receive an immediate automated response stating that your completed form has been received. THIS IS NOT A CONFIRMATION OF YOUR REQUEST! You will receive another response from the scheduler stating whether the requested time can be reserved for you. If the time can be reserved, you will receive instructions to complete a Rules for Booking (PDF) form and return it to Alana de Ocampo in the Equipment Room for confirmation.

Expression reserves the right to cancel a booking without warning, but will make an effort to notify the Student

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Please visit the Equipment Room page to reserve gear for your session. You will need to include the date, time, and location of your session on the gear reservation form, available at http://students.expression.edu/equipment-room.
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If you need extra time outside of regularly scheduled classes and labs to complete a graded project, to prepare for a quiz, or to practice for a performance evaluation, you may reserve up to 20 hours per month in the appropriate room.

(If your group would like to hire a tutor to assist in your review session, please visit the Academic Assistance page. There are dedicated tutors for BRP to aid those students in reviewing for the final or performance eval.)

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First-off, before you make a request for any of the above, check the Online Room Schedule. The page will open up with a calendar navigation tool at the top, and today’s schedule shown as a graph with the Room names down the right side and the time slots across the top. Match up the time of day with the room you want to see if it is available. You can also check your class schedule from this site.
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Complete the Expression Booking form at least 1 full business day in advance (a business day is Monday-Friday 8a-5p, excluding Holidays). Requests for Saturday through Monday should be submitted no later than 9am Friday morning. Please make sure all fields of the form are complete before submitting. When you select “Extra Lab Time” as the type of request on the form, a drop down menu of instructors will appear. Select your current course director or program name and your request will be sent to the appropriate email. You will receive an email response confirming that your form has been submitted. If you don’t receive an immediate “Thank You for Your Request” email, your form may not have been sent. In this case, please contact your current instructor or booking@expression.edu.
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Please visit the Equipment Room page to reserve gear for your session. You will need to include the date, time, and location of your session on the gear reservation form, available at http://students.expression.edu/equipment-room.
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Dear student,

I highly encourage you to utilize the studios and suites of SAE Expression College. In order to keep this privilege available to our community, we must care for these spaces.

*** Rooms must be used as intended, normalized, tidied and left in professional-standard condition. ***

*** Studio hardware must never be disconnected or rewired. ***

Violation of this rule is considered a breach of the student code of conduct and may be resolved by a suspension of booking privileges, or in egregious cases, expulsion.

Students have two circumstances under which a room can be booked: extra lab time, and personal time.

Extra lab time: an opportunity for a student to practice or explore course related activities in a studio. This is a chance to prepare for course assessments, learn how to operate a component beyond the lab experience, and continue or complete course related projects in a studio. For classes that have integrated projects, students can request this additional time to mix, edit or otherwise finish what they began in labs. Instructors can approve as much of this time as a student requires. This is not production time, and to discourage abuse of this opportunity, sessions must be limited to four hours. Instructors will not approve back-to-back extra lab time sessions for an individual student.

Personal time: an opportunity for a student to produce individual projects in a studio. Each month the student receives 30 hours of time to use in rooms which they have ‘unlocked’ relative to their progress in the program. If a student has exceeded their term allotment then they may submit a request for additional hours (including an explanation of why they require more time) via email to the course instructor, Alana de Ocampo, and Chris Colatos for approval.

Violation of studio rules is considered a breach of the student code of conduct and may be resolved by a suspension of booking privileges, or in egregious cases, expulsion.

Please let me know if you have any questions about the reservation guidelines, and thank you in advance for keeping them in mind as you complete your booking requests.